Olive or pickle spoon.



No. 742,685. PATENTED OCT. 27, 1903.

A. H. LEAGH, OLIVE OR PIGKLE SPOON.

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NITED STATES PATEN ARTHUR II. LEACH, OF MIDDLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS.

OLIVE OR PICKLE SPOON.

:JPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 742,685, dated October27, 1903. Application filed October 30,1902. Serial No. 129,476. (Nomodel.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: edges of the prongs flare or diverge fromeach Be it known that I, ARTHUR H. LEACH, a other toward these tips, soas to form a wedgecitizen of the United States, residing at Midshapedopening into which the article being dleboro, in the county ofPlymouthand State removed can be forced by pressure against 55 of Massachusetts,have invented certain new the sides of the vessel, theedges of theprongs and useful Improvements in Olive or Pickle being thin and readilyentering the article Spoons; and I do declarethe following to be andholding it against accidental displacea full, clear, and exactdescription of the inment even though the tips or ends of the vention,such as will enable others skilled in prongs should not enter or engagetherewith. 60 the art to which it appertains to make and By constructingthe spoon in this manner the use the same. broadest part of the rim isplaced at the tip, Myinvention is an improved olive or pickle which willgive it a greater bearing on the spoon; and it consists in the peculiarconarticle being removed, and thereby prevent struction and arrangementof devices herethe liability of the article, which is round, as 65 I5inafter fully described and claimed. in olives, or oblong, as inpickles, slipping to The object of my invention is to provide one sideor the other, as would be the case an improvedspoonwhich isespeciallyadapted with the ordinary pointed bowl. In addition for use intaking olives, pickles, and the like to this it gives room for spacingthe prongs a from bottles, jars, and dishes; and it consists sufficientdistance apart and yet leaves them 70 I in a spoon having a rim in placeof the bowl, in substantially thev same plane with each said rim beingprovided at its lower end with other, whereby their edges can enter thearupturned prongs, one or more, to engage or ticle, whether their tipsdo or not, or the arbear under the "olive or pickle. ticle may beimpaled upon one or both of the Inthe accompanying drawings, Figure l isprongs, and thus be removed from the vessel, 75 a perspective view of aspoon embodying my or it may be held loosely within the rim. Inimprovements, and Fig. 2 is a detail longitueither instance the articleis removed from diual sectional view taken through the drainthe vesselwithout the liquor or pickling fluid, ing-bowl of the spoon. Fig. 3 is adetail as that is drained off through the opening in transversesectional view taken on a plane or above the top of the rim. 8:: ointersecting the bowl of the spoon and look- By constructing the rimwith a single opening toward the lower or outer end thereof. ing almostcoextensive therewith, instead of In carrying out my inventionIconstruct a a series of smaller openings, the ordinaryspoon. The bottomof the bowl is cut away sized articles may be so firmly seated thereinand forms an opening 2, which is almost 00- that they will not readilyfall out even though 8 5 extensivewiththo remainingportion, thereby theywere not engaged by the prongs, the leaving the bowl in the form of arim or skelerim engaging with the article nearer the centon 3. The rimis substantially ovoidal or ter than it could do with a bottomed bowl.egg-shaped, with the larger diameter at the This ability to hold thearticles loosely is furtip and the apex at the handle instead of thether increased by extending the prongs up- 0 4o reverse, as in theordinary spoon. ward in the plane of the rim and slightly curv- The rimof the spoon has the flare or transing their tips to the rear. versecurvature of the usual bowl, and the In using the spoon it is insertedinto the outward end is provided with a plurality of vessel and the rimor prongs or both caused upwardly-projecting prongs or tines 4:, whichto engage with the article to be removed, after 5 1 5 may act as hooksin operation. These prongs which the spoon is removed with the accomarelocated at a suitable distance apart on panying article. I oppositesides of the longitudinal center of Having described my invention, Iclaimthe rim and are formed by extending the rim 1. A spoon having ahandle and an ovoidal upward in the same plane at those points and rimat one end thereof, the widest portion of 100 having substantially thesame thickness and said rim being at the tip or point farthest curvatureas the rim. The inner or adjacent from the handle and provided withupwardlyextending prongs, substantially in the same plane with said rim.

2. A spoon having a handle and an ovoidal transversely-curved rim, theWidest portion of which rim is at the tip and. provided with twoupwardly-extending prongs, and the apex is at one end of the handle,said prongs lying substantially in the same plane with each other andwith the rim at that point and diverging from each other toward theirtips 10 and curved to the rear.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

ARTHUR H. LEACH. Witnesses:

AUSTIN M. HOWARD, PATRICK H. MATTHEWS.

